Native structure studio RA! took cues from Latin American artwork deco design when creating the tiny inside of Los Alexis, a small taqueria in Mexico Metropolis’s Roma Norte neighbourhood.
Los Alexis is a taco eatery – or taqueria – in Roma, a famed district in Mexico Metropolis, which options examples of artwork deco structure.
RA! drew on the “vibrant character” of the realm when designing the only 15-square-metre room restaurant, housed inside a former beer depository.
“One of the crucial necessary requests of our consumer was for this tiny house to shine among the many remainder of the retail premises on the road,” stated studio co-founder and designer Pedro Ramírez de Aguilar.
RA! clad the partitions and flooring in a particular mosaic of damaged ceramic tiles with inexperienced joints as an ode to Barcelona, the place chef Alexis Ayala hung out coaching, the designer instructed Dezeen.
A curved bar completed in slabs of ribbed inexperienced materials fronts the open kitchen, which is positioned on the correct of the small open house.
Utilitarian supplies, together with the tiles, had been chosen all through the restaurant for his or her “endurance and quick cleansing processes”.
White-painted metal breakfast-style stools line the bar, which has a bartop product of metal – chosen for its resistance to grease, in keeping with Ramírez de Aguilar.
The studio determined to protect the house’s unique, peeling ceiling “to create a wider distinction [within the eatery] and to recollect the outdated premises”.
Casual seating strains the pavement simply outdoors of the taqueria the place prospects can eat and socialise.
Apart from a small lavatory behind Los Alexis, the one-room restaurant is purposefully outlined by its bar and open kitchen.
“Typical ‘changarros’ [small shops] in Mexico Metropolis are all concerning the dialog with the cookers, so we tried to have this interplay between folks as a foremost goal,” defined Ramírez de Aguilar.
Based in 2017, RA! beforehand created the interiors for a restaurant within the metropolis’s Polanco neighbourhood with a bar counter formed like an inverted ziggurat.
DOT Espresso Station is one other hole-in-the-wall cafe in Kyiv, Ukraine, which YOD Group designed with an analogous floor-to-ceiling mosaic of tiles.
The pictures is courtesy of RA!
